Strainer attachment for spraying apparatus.



No. 743,091. PATENTBD Nov. s, 190s.

A. I. LOOP.` STRATNER ATTACHMENT TOR SPRAYING APPARATUS.

l APPLIGATION FILED MAY 27, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES f Patented vNovember 3, 190;

PATENT OFFICE.

ADMAII I. LOOP, OF NORTHEAST, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOE OF ONE-HALF To EOIOE s.. PIERCE AND GEO.- E. FIEROE, DOING BUSINESS AS FIEEOE EROS., OF NORTHEAST, FENNSYEvANIA.

sTRAlNER ATTACHMENT .OR sPRAYlNG APPARATUS.

SPECIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,091, dated Noveinbr 3, 1903.

Application led May 27, 1903. Serial No. 159,000. (No modell) To a/ZZ whom it may oon/cern:

Be it known that I, ADMAH I. LOOP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Northeast, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Strainer Attachments for Spraying Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the-art to which it appertains to Inake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming part of this specification. i

My invention relates to strainer attachments for spraying apparatus; and it con sists substantially in a strainer mechanism so attached to the spraying apparatus that the spraying Iiuid passes through it on its way to the spraying-nozzles. v

In the spraying iiuids ordinarily used there is more or less sediment, which causes muchtrouble in obstructing the spraying-nozzles, so that they have to be frequently detached and cleaned. To overcome this difiiculty, I have devised a strainer mechanism in which there is a flue strainer-screen, below which there is a sediment-chamber and an inlet for the fluid which passes upward through the screen to the spraying-hose, and in. the bottom of the sediment-chamber there is an out- 'let closed bya cock which can be opened and the sediment in the chamber discharged, so that all of the sediment is stopped by the screen and falls into the chamber and is from there discharged.

The features of my invention are hereinafter fully set forthand described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a central vertical section of my device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the screen and grating over it removed from the de- Vice.

In the drawings illustrating myinvention, A is the lower section, and B the upper section, of the strainer-casing, preferably connected by a screw-joint C, and resting on the annular shoulder a of the section A, I place a disk of fine wire-gauze screening D,

and on the top of this screen D, I place a removable skeleton disk E, having numerous openings therein, and when the upper section B is screwed down upon these parts D and E, as illustrated in Fig. l, they are held firmly in place and the skeleton disk E supports the gauze-disk D against the pressure of the liuid passing up through it. In one side of the section A, a short distance below the strainerscreen D, I secure an inlet-pipe F, provided with a shut-O cock F. The inner end fof the pipe F is flattened somewhat and so directed as to discharge the fluid passing in from the pipe F across the lower surface of the strainer D, -which operates to throw OE therefrom any particles of sediment tending `to adhere thereto, which particles then fall Adischarged through the outlet-pipe A by opening the shut-Off cock G therein. In the central part of the upper section B, I secure an elbow-nipple H, to which a spraying-hose ing-nozzles. 7 (Not shown.) In operation the pipe E is connected to a tank (not shown) containing spraying iiuid under suitable pressure, and when the cock F is opened the iiuid passes out Of the endf thereof acrossl the under surface of the gauze-screen D and up through the screen D and grating E and out through the outlet H and spraying-hose I, while the sediment is stopped by the gauze screen D and falls down into the sedimentchamber D in the lower part of the section A, where it is retained until drawn o through the pipe A by opening the cock G.

Having thus fully described my invention so as to enable others to construct and use the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s-

1. The combination in a strainer attachment for spraying apparatus, of a casing, a strainer screen therein, an inlet-pipe entering the casing at one side below the strainerscreen havingits inner end upwardly turned so as to discharge against and transversely across the under surface of the strainerment-chamber below said screen, an outletpipe in said casing above the screen and an inlet-pipe entering said casing at one side thereof below the screen, and an upwardlyturned inner end on said inlet-pipe directing the discharge therefrom against and across I the under surface of the strainer-screen, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADMAH I. LOOP. Witnesses:

EZRA MALICK, E. GREEN. 

